UAM webinar for EUROCONTROL’s Stakeholder Forum Initiative February 04, 2021Dr. Joerg P. Mueller - Head of Urban Air Mobility

UAM @ AirbusShaping the way we live, travel and interact

We believe the future of aerospace is autonomous, connected and zero-emission.

Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry.

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Vahana - a tandem tilt wing

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Speed - 190km/Hour (cruise)Equivalent capacity - single passengerTotal flights - 138Furthest flight - 50 kmLongest flight duration - 20 minutesDistance flown - 903 km

CityAirbus - a multi passenger VTOL demonstrator

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MTOW: 2.2t Equivalent capacity - up to 4 passengersFlight tests ongoing

Urban Aircraft Support &Service Flight Operations Air Traffic

ManagementGround

InfrastructurePassenger Solution

Design, Develop and Produce

Maintain, Repair, Overhaul, provide

Spare Parts

Operate the Urban eVTOL, Acquire or

Lease

Develop and Operate ATM / UTM Solutions

for Urban Flight

Build and Operate Ground Segment

Provide end-to-end Passenger Experience

Greater than the technological hurdles ...

Airbus is actively involved in the co-creation of the UAM ecosystem

Toulouse

Bavaria

Paris

Spain

Project-specific country involvement from the USA to Singapore

Leveraging EU-wide smart citiesThe UAM Initiative of the

EU's Smart Cities Marketplace

Singapore

San Francisco

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Key success factors:

● Regulation and standards: risk- and performance- driven; agile rulemaking processes

● ConOps: robust, validated, comprehensive, widely agreed

● CNS* incl. non-traditional CNS enablers: 5G, advanced satellite navigation, etc.

● Separation standards, rules of the air, related uSpace services

● Airspace access: rules, integration with IFR, VFR

● ATM: coordination/integration with ATM and handover between controlled and uncontrolled airspace

● ...

Many elements need to come together on the airspace side to enable UAM

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… in a pan-European coordinated approach

* Communications, Navigation and Surveillance

Looking ahead: 3 Steps to mature technology, market knowledge, and work towards certification

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Technology demonstrators exploring 2 different VTOL configurations

Maturation of technology and certification capability

Certified vehicles and operation at scale

● eVTOL complying with EASA SC-VTOL Enhanced

● Specified for typical urban missions

● Focus on key systems like the powertrain, systems, noise etc.

● Piloted, preparing for autonomy

● Smaller scale demos and initial operations

● UAM ecosystem building

● First flight 2019● 2.2 tons MTOW● Low complexity (8 DoF)● Ongoing flight testing

● First flight 2018● 700 kg MTOW● 138 flights completed, 50 km

range achieved ● High complexity (22 DoF)

● At the end of the decade

Flighthours

today Mid ‘30s

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